Shoe-measure.



WITNESSES:

0. D. BLAGKMON.

SHOE MEASURE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 17, 1908.

FIGJ.

Patented Aug. 24, 1909 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES D. BLACKHON, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 AMERICAN CHEMICAL KANU; FACTURING & H INING'COKPANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

silos-MEASURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 24, 1909.

Application filed February 17, 1908. Serial No. 416,294.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES D. BLAoK- MON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe- Measures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shoe measures, and consists in the apparatus hereinafter described and claimed.

attached to a stool 2. The foot-rest 1 may be supported by a leg 3. The foot-rest 1 has at its lower edge a rim or bracket 4, which may be made of any suitably rigid material, such as metal, wood, hard rubber, &c., and which is bent into a curve that is concave at its upper side so as to take the back of the heel of a footor shoe.

Upon the upper surface of the foot-rest l is a pad 5 having a sunken central portion .6, and having the portions around said sunken central portion suitably roughened or corrugated in order to cling to the bottom of the foot, stocking or shoe when the same is placed upon the pad. The pad may suitably fit down in the curved rim 4., as shown. In the form of device specifically illustrated in the drawings, the pad 5 is made of indiarubber, and the roughened portion 7 on each side of the sunken portion 6 is formed of a series of pyramidical points. The indiarubber of which this pad may be composed is comparatively soft, in order the better to cling to the foot, stocking or shoe of the person whose foot or shoe is being measured. The sunken portion 6 of the pad is flat, and has marked upon it a scale, preferably having a series of distance lines with indicating numerals adjacent to, the lines, whereby the length of the .foot or shoe, measured from the bracket 4, may be read in the ordinary denominations in use. For instance, in Fig. 2, the series of numerals on the right hand side, running from 14 to 44, indicate the French measures for shoe lengths; and the numerals on the left in said Fig. 2 indicate the English measures. The numerals from 0 to 13 are for childrens and youths shoes, and the next series from 1 to 11 are for adults shoes.

The numerals appear to be inverted, and are 1 so placed in order to be read by the clerk or employee. The numerals and scale divisions may be sunken into the surface of the pad, or may be raised therefrom, or may be printed thereon in a color different from that of the center of the pad.

Vhat I claim is 1. A shoe measure comprising a pad or plate having a central sunken portion; a scale upon its sunken portion; and a bracket attached to one end of the plate to hold the foot in definite position with respect to said scale; substantially as shown and described.-

2. A shoe measure comprising a pad or .plate having a central sunken portion and 

